How much revenue did Gloomwood make?

$1.1M–$3.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Gloomwood sell?

Q: How many copies did Gloomwood sell?

208k to 338k copies, based on its 8k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 208k–338k; $1.1M–$3.1M after Steam's cut $2.1M–$4.7M before the cut; from 8k reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Gloomwood out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Gloomwood's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 291k–925k

best case 2.0M (Bodycam)

Games like Gloomwood

The middle of these games

≈ 291k–925k copies

≈ $2.8M–$6.4M after Steam's cut

from ~20k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Bodycam at ≈ 1.5M–2.4M copies, ≈ $13.7M–$36.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2k to 28k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on FPS (5 of 8) and Immersive Sim (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Realistic, priced around $33.
The era: 5 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 36 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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